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View the SANtricity System Manager tab (E-Series only)

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The SANtricity System Manager tab enables you to access SANtricity System Manager without having to configure or connect the management port of the storage appliance. You can use this tab to review hardware diagnostic and environmental information as well as issues related to the drives.

Caution Accessing SANtricity System Manager from the Grid Manager is generally meant only to monitor appliance hardware and configure E-Series AutoSupport. Many features and operations within SANtricity System Manager such as upgrading firmware don't apply to monitoring your StorageGRID appliance. To avoid issues, always follow the hardware maintenance instructions for your appliance. To upgrade SANtricity firmware, see the Maintenance configuration procedures for your storage appliance.
Note The SANtricity System Manager tab is shown only for storage appliance nodes using E-Series hardware.

Using SANtricity System Manager, you can do the following:

  • View performance data such as storage array level performance, I/O latency, storage controller CPU utilization, and throughput.

  • Check hardware component status.

  • Perform support functions including viewing diagnostic data, and configuring E-Series AutoSupport.

    Note To use SANtricity System Manager to configure a proxy for E-Series AutoSupport, see Send E-Series AutoSupport packages through StorageGRID.

To access SANtricity System Manager through Grid Manager, you must have the Storage appliance administrator or Root access permission.

Note You must have SANtricity firmware 8.70 or higher to access SANtricity System Manager using the Grid Manager.

The tab displays the home page of SANtricity System Manager.

Nodes page SANtricity tab
Note You can use the SANtricity System Manager link to open the SANtricity System Manager in a new browser window for easier viewing.

To see details for storage array level performance and capacity usage, position your cursor over each graph.

For more details on viewing the information accessible from the SANtricity System Manager tab, see NetApp E-Series and SANtricity documentation.